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AngelofMusic
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Hi,
This was a question on a past exam, and I'm very confused about how to do this. We're not allowed calculators, so I'm sure there must be some simple solution that I'm missing.
It asks: Use power series to estimate [tex]\int_{0}^{1/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+x^3}}dx[/tex] within 10^-3.
I started off with the binomial series:
[tex](1+x^3)^{-1/2} = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
-1/2 \\
k \end{array}\right)x^{3k}[/tex]
I then integrated from 0 to 1/2 to get:
[tex]\int_{0}^{1/2}(1+x^3)^{-1/2}dx = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
-1/2 \\
k \end{array}\right)\frac{(1/2)^{3k+1}}{3k+1}[/tex]
Now I'm stuck because I don't know how to make it accurate within 0.01. The remainder has a formula:
[tex]R_n(x) = \frac{f^{(n+1)}(c)}{(n+1)!}x^{n+1}[/tex]
But I don't know how to find M, such that [tex]f^{(n+1)}(c)<=M[/tex].
Did I do this one completely wrong? Is there a power series that's easier to work with than the one I came up with? To me, it seems almost impossible to do this question without a lot of tedious work and using a calculator, but our exam is strictly no calculators allowed.
Any help would be appreciated!
This was a question on a past exam, and I'm very confused about how to do this. We're not allowed calculators, so I'm sure there must be some simple solution that I'm missing.
It asks: Use power series to estimate [tex]\int_{0}^{1/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+x^3}}dx[/tex] within 10^-3.
I started off with the binomial series:
[tex](1+x^3)^{-1/2} = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
-1/2 \\
k \end{array}\right)x^{3k}[/tex]
I then integrated from 0 to 1/2 to get:
[tex]\int_{0}^{1/2}(1+x^3)^{-1/2}dx = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
-1/2 \\
k \end{array}\right)\frac{(1/2)^{3k+1}}{3k+1}[/tex]
Now I'm stuck because I don't know how to make it accurate within 0.01. The remainder has a formula:
[tex]R_n(x) = \frac{f^{(n+1)}(c)}{(n+1)!}x^{n+1}[/tex]
But I don't know how to find M, such that [tex]f^{(n+1)}(c)<=M[/tex].
Did I do this one completely wrong? Is there a power series that's easier to work with than the one I came up with? To me, it seems almost impossible to do this question without a lot of tedious work and using a calculator, but our exam is strictly no calculators allowed.
Any help would be appreciated!